Mbox Basics Guide
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Controlling Delay (Latency) During Monitoring
Mbox and Pro Tools LE use your computer for
all audio processing, playback, and recording.
This causes a small amount of audio delay, or la-
tency.
Latency is most obvious when monitoring dur-
ing recording. You may hear this as a slight de-
lay between when you produce the sound and
when you hear the sound through the speakers
or headphones.
Mbox gives you the ability to monitor your an-
alog input signals while recording, without
hearing any latency. This zero-latency analog
monitoring is controlled by the Mbox front
panel Mix control, which you can use to blend
and adjust the ratio between the Mbox analog
input and Pro Tools playback.
To use zero latency monitoring while recording:
1 Launch Pro Tools and set up a session. See
“Recording a Pro Tools Session” on page 8.
2 Do one of the following:
• Mute the track you are recording on. This
prevents you from hearing the delayed sig-
nal coming back from Pro Tools through
the Mbox.
– or –
• Use the Mix control on the front of the
Mbox to blend the playback tracks with the
analog tracks that you are recording.
Muting a track
Mix control on Mbox front panel
The Mix control has no effect when you are
using S/PDIF digital inputs.
Mix control
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